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Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital

Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital

Kafescioğlu, Çiğdem

Hardcover

Series: Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies, Book 5

General ArchitectureArchitecture History

ISBN10: 0271027762
ISBN13: 9780271027760
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Dec 28 2009
Pages: 346
Weight: 3.75
Height: 1.30 Width: 9.10 Depth: 10.20
Language: English

A symbolic locus embodying myriad meanings, the political center of the eastern Mediterranean, and one of the old world's largest urban centers, Constantinople was the site of large-scale urban and architectural interventions. Changing visions--the changing political, cultural, and religious orientations of those who lived there and those who ruled from there--inscribed themselves in its spaces, transforming it and lending it new meanings. Constantinopolis/Istanbul is about such a period of change and remaking: following its capture in 1453, the city was host to a grandly conceived urban project meant to rebuild and transform the capital of Eastern Rome as the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

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